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31 Dec 2005, 15:32 (Ref:1492490)
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Dakar 06 - Where has team De Rooy gone?
Couldn't help noticing that one of the most committed dakar teams is invisible on the timing sheets this year - where are the boys in blue from the Jan De Rooy truck team? I'm sure they had an entry this year...
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31 Dec 2005, 16:13 (Ref:1492509)
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"It seemed that Andy had another 75bhp on me, and that as soon as he got on the straight he´d press a button, turn a knob and off he went", Steve Soper
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31 Dec 2005, 16:38 (Ref:1492512)
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31 Dec 2005, 16:54 (Ref:1492522)
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The 2006 spec was not homologated in time. The two DAF's teams say they agreed with the FIA that there was no problem. On 7 december the FFSA did an official pre-scruteneering on all the race-trucks. There was no problem of the sort. 23 december while in Portugal they heard that the homologation was not going to happen. So they rebuild the trucks to 2005 spec. They replaced 26 different things. There was only one thing, not performance depending, that they couldn't change in time, so they filed a new homologation for that some time ago. The FIA refuses to grant that homologation before 2 January because they are on holiday. They can't start pending the descision either because KAMAZ and RENAULT filed an official complaint.
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31 Dec 2005, 17:22 (Ref:1492537)
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Oh dear. smacks of the Minardi situation at the beginning last year's F1 season. also seems that there's a conflict between the FFSA and the FIA
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31 Dec 2005, 17:53 (Ref:1492545)
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FFSA President, Jacques Regis has been in some struggle for power with Max, so that explains some things..... |
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2 Jan 2006, 08:19 (Ref:1493275)
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Only issue was the leaf spring. The DAF team have 9cm while the homologation sais 8cm.
Other issue about the homologation is the number of proto's produced. You need 15 proto's before the truck can be homologated, and team De Rooy were a few short. Funny how 1cm of leaf spring can waste a 2 mil. euro budget. |
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2 Jan 2006, 17:29 (Ref:1493547)
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